Space News

Del Rey Books releases Adam Christopher's new "Star Wars" novel, "Shadow of the Sith."

Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show signs of key ingredients of life as we know it on Earth.

Houston-based Axiom Space has found the perfect place to develop its commercial orbital outpost: a sprawling facility that comes pre-equipped with a mockup of the International Space Station.

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon.

The globe skimmer dragonfly flies from India to Africa during its annual migration. Now researchers are beginning to understand some of the tricks that make this feat possible.

'The Orville' season 3 continues to wow us with enthralling stories, just the right amount of humor and mind-blowing space battles.

The Space Force's X-37B has now been aloft for 773 days, just a week shy of the program record.

The most complete remains of a mummified infant woolly mammoth were found in North America.

A microwave oven-sized cubesat launched to space today from New Zealand by commercial company Rocket Lab and their Electron rocket. The small satellite will conduct tests to make sure the unique lunar orbit for NASA's fu...

NASA's 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE cubesat launched toward the moon today (June 28), but it won't get there until Nov. 13.

NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project called Cloudspotting on Mars that invites the public to identify Martian clouds using the citizen ...

Earth’s oceans are one huge, uniform electrolyte solution. They contain salt (sodium chloride) and other nutrients like magnesium, sulphate, and calcium. We can’t survive without electrolytes, and life on Earth might...

Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf that miraculously survived its own thermonuclear detonation, raising questions over how and why these stars create supernovas.

Join in for free Wednesday (June 29) as NASA celebrates the forthcoming end of commissioning for its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.

Chinese launch service provider Expace has secured $237 million in B round funding, following last week's return to flight of its Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket. The post Chinese commercial launch firm Expace raises $237 milli...

Discover what Dobsonian telescopes are as we take you through their design and widespread popularity among astronomers.

Congress should fully fund NASA's $25.97 billion FY23 budget request, including the full requested amount for STMD, as it drafts and advances the FY23 appropriations bills. The post Op-ed | NASA's Space Technology Missio...

It was NASA's first launch from a commercial facility outside the United States, and more are coming very soon.

A new image from NASA's HIRISE camera reveals strange 'polygons' cracking open the surface of Mars. It's just a typical sign of spring, scientists say.

The identification of an age-old virus could illuminate the formation of complex forms of life.

An international group of researchers led by Arnaud Belloche (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany) reports the first identification of iso-propanol in interstellar space, a substance which is used as a sanitizer on Earth. Iso-propanol ...

The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and no...